Health Canada medical device licences, devices and recalls

Active and archived licences in one history

A licence that lapses does not disappear here. Active and archived records are held side by side with their own state, so you can answer what a company held in 2019 as easily as what it holds today — a question MDALL's own search cannot answer once a licence leaves the active listing.

• Licence number, holder, class, device names and identifiers, as published
• Active and archived states preserved separately, never merged into one status
• Licence, device and company pages each link to the Health Canada record they came from

Recalls matched to devices, with the reasoning shown

Health Canada publishes recalls as free text naming affected products, not as links to licensed devices. Matching is deterministic: identifier and catalogue number first, then normalized company name and product wording. Each candidate carries a score and a written explanation you can read.

• Every recall-to-device pair is labelled Matched, Possible match or No apparent match
• A reviewer can confirm, downgrade or reject a pair, and that decision survives every later refresh
• Shared wording alone never produces a match — only an identifier or an identical device name does

Watch the licences you own

Add licences, devices or companies to a watchlist and each scheduled refresh reports what moved: a licence moving to archived, an identifier added or removed, a new recall matched to a device you track. Alerts carry Info, Attention or Critical severity, with unread tracking, email digests and push for critical recall matches on paid plans.